TPP Selects Accenture to Implement Patient Record System Across
Community and Children’s Hospitals in Southern England

New system aims to improve care delivery and patient outcomes with
connected healthcare

December 21, 2012 03:00 AM Eastern Time

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Accenture
(NYSE: ACN) has been selected by The
Phoenix Partnership (TPP) to implement a patient administration
system across nine community health systems and children’s hospitals for
the National
Health Services (NHS) in southern England. Under the multi-million
dollar agreement, Accenture and TPP will create a single electronic
patient record system that will enable clinicians to access and exchange
health information across community, primary and acute care settings.

“We’ve been dedicated to working on this new procurement over the last
few months”

Accenture will work with the Trusts in the Southern Community & Child
Health Procurement consortium to deploy the TPP SystmOne solution and
will provide application integration, hosting, deployment and ongoing
support for the platform. In addition, Accenture and TPP will implement
functionality to support community services, community hospitals, minor
injuries units and child health, including e-prescribing during 2013 and
2014.

“We are delighted to have been selected to help support community and
child health service providers across southern England,” said Jim
Burke, managing director for Accenture’s health business in the
United Kingdom. “With the combination of TPP’s proven and reliable
technology and Accenture’s implementation experience, patients of all
ages across southern England will see the benefits that connected health
can provide.”

Currently, the NHS has more than 120,000 clinicians that are actively
using TPP’s SystmOne to access and exchange 26 million records across
2,000 provider practices, 53 children health units, 58 community care
organizations and 140 prisons. With this announcement, SystmOne is now
being used by its first acute trust and social care clients in England.

“We’ve been dedicated to working on this new procurement over the last
few months,” said Frank Hester, managing director for TPP. “To be told
we’re the successful bidder for these contracts is fantastic and we look
forward to working closely with the providers in a way that enables
connected care to become a reality for so many new communities across
the South.”

The Southern Community & Child Health Procurement consortium includes
nine NHS community health systems in southern England, which extends
from Kent in the East to Cornwall in the West.

Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and
outsourcing company, with approximately 259,000 people serving clients
in more than 120 countries. Combining unparalleled experience,
comprehensive capabilities across all industries and business functions,
and extensive research on the world’s most successful companies,
Accenture collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance
businesses and governments. The company generated net revenues of
US$27.9 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2012. Its home page
is www.accenture.com.